This Act may be cited as the "Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019".
"(C) If a transfer of a firearm described in subparagraph (A) will not be completed for any reason after a licensee takes possession of the firearm (including because the transfer of the firearm to, or receipt of the firearm by, the transferee would violate this chapter), the return of the firearm to the transferor by the licensee shall not constitute the transfer of a firearm for purposes of this chapter.
"(iii) while in the presence of the transferor.
"(3) (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Attorney General may implement this subsection with regulations.
"(B) Regulations promulgated under this paragraph may not include any provision requiring licensees to facilitate transfers in accordance with paragraph (1).
"(C) Regulations promulgated under this paragraph may not include any provision requiring persons not licensed under this chapter to keep records of background checks or firearms transfers.
"(D) Regulations promulgated under this paragraph may not include any provision placing a cap on the fee licensees may charge to facilitate transfers in accordance with paragraph (1).
"(E) Regulations promulgated under this paragraph shall include, in the case of a background check conducted by the national instant criminal background check system in response to a contact from a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer, which background check indicates that the receipt of a firearm by a person would violate subsection (g)(5), a requirement that the system notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"(4) It shall be unlawful for a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer to transfer possession of, or title to, a firearm to another person who is not so licensed unless the importer, manufacturer, or dealer has provided such other person with a notice of the prohibition under paragraph (1), and such other person has certified that such other person has been provided with this notice on a form prescribed by the Attorney General.".
(a) Section 922.—Section 922(y)(2) of title 18, United States Code, is amended in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) by striking ", (g)(5)(B), and (s)(3)(B)(v)(II)" and inserting "and (g)(5)(B)".
(b) Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012.—Section 511 of title V of division B of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 (18 U.S.C. 922 note) is amended by striking "subsection 922(t)" each place it appears and inserting "subsection (s) or (t) of section 922".
The amendments made by this Act shall take effect 210 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
Passed the House of Representatives February 27, 2019.


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require 'rails_helper'

RSpec.describe "permitted_users/index", type: :view do
  before(:each) do
    assign(:permitted_users, [
      PermittedUser.create!(
        :email => "Email",
        :name => "Name",
        :type => "Type"
      ),
      PermittedUser.create!(
        :email => "Email",
        :name => "Name",
        :type => "Type"
      )
    ])
  end

  it "renders a list of permitted_users" do
    render
    assert_select "tr>td", :text => "Email".to_s, :count => 2
    assert_select "tr>td", :text => "Name".to_s, :count => 2
    assert_select "tr>td", :text => "Type".to_s, :count => 2
  end
end

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Futaba Corporation (,) (lit. Futaba Electronics Manufacturing Corporation)   é uma empresa japonesa, famosa por fabricar  sistemas de rádio controle (RC), incluindo transmissores, receptores, servos. Estes produtos são utilizados como a ligação electrónica entre a pessoa que controla uma aeronave do modelo e do solo e do sistema de controle remoto real no veículo. A marca é distribuída na América do Norte em Hobbico of Champaign, Illinois, E.U.A.

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Housing Construction Savings Bank Shows Record Growth Rates in 2019
2019 has become the year of happy families for the Housing Construction Savings Bank of Kazakhstan. The Bakytty Otbasy program instructed by the First President of Kazakhstan has become the most favorite product offered by the bank since the first days of its introduction.
Over the last five months, more than 4,000 families have celebrated their housewarmings in Kazakhstan, while another 740 families are in the process of choosing their own house.
"5,000 of our homebuyers, who have submitted their applications from July until August, are low income, single-parent or large families. We've completely redesigned our business processes, in order to offer the opportunity for our clients to choose a house that suits them best in the property market," said Chairperson of Housing Construction Savings Bank of Kazakhstan, Lyazzat Ibragimova.
According to Lyazzat Ibragimova, the Housing Construction Savings Bank has developed a unique service ecosystem based on IT technologies. However, the main focus of the bank is customer service.
"We are the first bank in the country that has canceled the acceptance and withdrawal of title and collateral documents. Recently, we have stopped requesting for these documents. It was problematic in terms of typical details, when a homebuyer needed to legalize or add changes into the document," said Deputy Chairperson of Housing Construction Savings Bank of Kazakhstan, Adlet Kozhanbayev.
1.5 million people in Kazakhstan have put aside their savings for future apartments and houses in the Housing Construction Savings Bank. The homebuyers are entitled to the 20 percent bonus given by the state for a limit of savings not more than 505,000 Tenge.
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In this post, we discuss how you can get a green card through your employer.
What does it take to get a green card through a job offer?
The employer must commit to giving you a permanent job offer and be willing to support you in the green card process from start to finish. This is because the employer must not only sign the forms required to petition for the worker's green card but must also foot the bill including the immigration fees and attorney's fees. If an employer does not understand his responsibilities in filing for the worker's green card, delays can result, and in some cases an employer may abandon the green card process altogether. It is very important for an employer to be aware of their obligations at the outset of the application process.


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A Prayer for Government
By Archbishop John Carroll of Baltimore
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by ThoughtCo
The Roman Catholic Church and other Christian faiths have a long history of social activism and advocacy for government policy based on compassion and ethical morality. Intervention by the faithful in public policy becomes increasingly important in times of social and political unrest and division, and this gives special relevance to a prayer written by a renowned figure dating back to the Revolutionary War.
Archbishop John Carroll was the cousin of Charles Carroll, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. In 1789, Pope Pius VI named him the first bishop of the United States. (He would later become the first archbishop when the Diocese of Baltimore, MD, the mother diocese of the United States, was elevated to the status of archdiocese.) He is also the founder of Georgetown University, in Washington, DC.
Archbishop Carroll wrote this prayer November 10, 1791, to be recited in parishes throughout his diocese. It is a good novena to pray as a family or as a parish on national holidays--such as Independence Day and Thanksgiving--and it has special relevance at any time when our government and political consciousness is plagued by division.
We pray, Thee O Almighty and Eternal God! Who through Jesus Christ hast revealed Thy glory to all nations, to preserve the works of Thy mercy, that Thy Church, being spread through the whole world, may continue with unchanging faith in the confession of Thy Name.
We pray Thee, who alone art good and holy, to endow with heavenly knowledge, sincere zeal, and sanctity of life, our chief bishop, Pope N., the Vicar of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the government of his Church; our own bishop, N., all other bishops, prelates, and pastors of the Church; and especially those who are appointed to exercise amongst us the functions of the holy ministry, and conduct Thy people into the ways of salvation.
We pray Thee O God of might, wisdom, and justice! Through whom authority is rightly administered, laws are enacted, and judgment decreed, assist with Thy Holy Spirit of counsel and fortitude the President of these United States, that his administration may be conducted in righteousness, and be eminently useful to Thy people over whom he presides; by encouraging due respect for virtue and religion; by a faithful execution of the laws in justice and mercy; and by restraining vice and immorality. Let the light of Thy divine wisdom direct the deliberations of Congress, and shine forth in all the proceedings and laws framed for our rule and government, so that they may tend to the preservation of peace, the promotion of national happiness, the increase of industry, sobriety, and useful knowledge; and may perpetuate to us the blessing of equal liberty.
We pray for his excellency, the governor of this state, for the members of the assembly, for all judges, magistrates, and other officers who are appointed to guard our political welfare, that they may be enabled, by Thy powerful protection, to discharge the duties of their respective stations with honesty and ability.
We recommend likewise, to Thy unbounded mercy, all our brethren and fellow citizens throughout the United States, that they may be blessed in the knowledge and sanctified in the observance of Thy most holy law; that they may be preserved in union, and in that peace which the world cannot give; and after enjoying the blessings of this life, be admitted to those which are eternal.
Finally, we pray to Thee, O Lord of mercy, to remember the souls of Thy servants departed who are gone before us with the sign of faith and repose in the sleep of peace; the souls of our parents, relatives, and friends; of those who, when living, were members of this congregation, and particularly of such as are lately deceased; of all benefactors who, by their donations or legacies to this Church, witnessed their zeal for the decency of divine worship and proved their claim to our grateful and charitable remembrance. To these, O Lord, and to all that rest in Christ, grant, we beseech Thee, a place of refreshment, light, and everlasting peace, through the same Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior.
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The Celebrity Apprentice recap: I Wanna Be Your Dog
Gary shows off his bark, but will it make the LG executive's tail wag?
By Dalton Ross Updated April 29, 2013 at 06:00 AM EDT
Celebrity Apprentice
Credit: NBC
The Celebrity Apprentice
S13 E9
Mechanical dog. Mechanical dog. Mechanical dog. Mechanical dog. Mechanical dog. Mechanical dog. Mechanical dog. Mechanical dog. Mechanical dog. Mechanical dog. Mechanical dog. Mechanical dog. Mechanical dog. Mechanical dog. Mechanical dog. Mechanical dog. There. That may seem excessive, but it is still approximately 13,872 less mentions of the words "mechanical dog" than uttered during last night's episode of All-Star Celebrity Apprentice.
Mechanical dog here. Mechanical dog there. Mechanical dogs everywhere! There were so many damn mentions of mechanical dogs I was concerned we were about to be attacked by some sort of robot canine army. I would say that "mechanical dog" was uttered every single sentence, but that would be grossly inaccurate. Because judging by this quote by one Gary Busey, it was actually uttered twice every sentence: "The mechanical dog was my responsibility, but I didn't have any support from my teammates on the mechanical dog."
Someone needs to go right now and do a supercut of every mention of the phrase "mechanical dog" from the episode. It may be as long as the episode itself. In case you missed it — and really, what good excuse do you have for missing an episode of All-Star Celebrity Apprentice — and are confused as to why this was all happening, here's a brief recap. Once the teams were tasked with creating a video promoting LG electronic devices, Plan B Project Manager Gary Busey decided to have his video be him acting like a mechanical dog — whatever the hell that is — which was to include him barking as well as getting down on all fours and humping the coffee table. I want to be absolutely clear that I am not making up some funny joke here. I am not stretching the truth, nor am I embellishing. That was actually his plan for the video. To quote Penn Jillette, "He is literally barking mad."
To make matters even worse (which is to say, better), Gary's version of the mechanical dog appeared to be vomiting rather than barking. "So, was the mechanical dog barking or throwing up?" asked Ivanka Trump when she visited the team on the task. Does it matter? Either way was freakin' insane. Why was Gary Busey a mechanical dog? you may be asking. Well, the plot of his video centered around the fact that somehow an LG smartphone was going to keep human Busey from transforming into mechanical dog Busey. Don't believe me? Listen to this line from the actual script: "If I didn't have this, I'd be a mechanical dog for the rest of my life." Why will Gary Busey turn into a mechanical dog if he does not have an LG smartphone? I HAVE NO IDEA! To quote perplexed LG executive James Fishler, "I really didn't understand what that had to do with the video or any of the products."
I didn't understand either, and yet I humbly submit to the producers as well as any and all members of the Trump family that all future Celebrity Apprentice teams be forced to incorporate a mechanical dog theme into every single project from here until the end of time. Coming up with a new 3-D Universal Studios Orlando experience? Throw a mechanical dog in there! Need to impress Farouk Shami with a new Chi advertorial? Get a mechanical dog in that bad boy! Forced to shamelessly promote Ivanka Trump's jewelry line? Sounds like it's time to throw some bling on the mechanical dog!
As you can tell, I could talk mechanical dogs all day. And why not? Gary Busey did! But let's put all that tomfoolery aside and get to other tomfoolery as we count off the 6 other most magical moments of the latest edition of All-Star Celebrity Apprentice.
NEXT: Going by the criteria, should Gary have actually won?
1. Three Point Plan
Have you ever noticed that the criteria for what the teams will be judged on for every single task is pretty much exactly the same every time? Instead of just saying "Whoever does a better job wins," one of Trump's children comes up with a phony baloney set of three points on which they will be judged. For instance, let's listen to the instructions this week from Ivanka Trump, who truly lived up to her Boardroom Dominatrix persona by rocking a black leather skirt: "Your videos will be judged on the following criteria: creativity, integration of product knowledge, and overall presentation."
First off, that is basically the same thing they are allegedly judged on every week. And secondly, it is complete B.S. If she was bring completely honest, Ivanka would have said, "Your videos will be judged on whatever criteria my father deems necessary to fire the person he wants off the show. Good luck!"
But I love the fact they introduce a fake checklist that they then don't even bother to follow when judging the winners. What am I talking about? Well, consider this: Who made the better video? Clearly Lil Jon and Plan B, right? I mean, Gary Busey's video featured shots of the back of a couch and his on-screen wife saying "I like to go slow and let nature take me," which sounds like she either needs to go make a B.M. or borrow some of Clint Black's Tide detergent to go masturbate.
Ah, but according to the rules they are not being judged on who made the better video, but rather on the following criteria: creativity, integration of product knowledge, and overall presentation. Let's take those one by one.
CREATIVITY: His video was absurd and ridiculous, but no one can argue that Gary Busey transforming himself into a mechanical dog was less creative that Marilu welcoming her on-screen son home from college. Strictly in terms of being creative (as opposed to good) this one isn't even close. WINNER: Plan B
INTEGRATION OF PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE: Busey's team barely even showed the washer/dryer while Lil Jon made sure each device/appliance got their own money shot. WINNER: Power
OVERALL PRESENTATION: Didn't adviser Joan Rivers go on and on about how amazing Gary Busey was while speaking about LG products during the presentation? And didn't LG executive James Fishler go on and on about how amazing Plan B's Penn Jillete was talking about being an early adopter and loving the LG products? And didn't Fishler also make a point of saying how completely checked out Power's Trace Adkins was, complaining that, "Trace only said hello and goodbye to me"? Okay, so judging by those comments you have to call this category as WINNER: Plan B.
So there you have it. Lil Jon's team clearly had the much better video, but going by their own self-imposed criteria, LG and the advisers had no choice but to anoint Gary "Mechanical Dog" Busey the winner! After all, he won two out of the three things they were allegedly being judged on. Which just goes to show that the supposed criteria is all a complete joke. Which is absolutely perfect and another reason why I love this show above all others.
NEXT: Lisa wants to get kinky with a TV set
2. LG is the Most Fantastic Company in the History of Companies
We all know that Celebrity Apprentice is basically a two-hour infomercial for whatever company happened to pony up the dough that week to have their merchandise shoved down our throats ad nauseam. But even for this show the product pimping was out of control this week. The most egregious moments occurred when the nerds…I mean, tech guys from LG visited both teams to show them — and, even more importantly for the company, us — how amazing and amazingly easy their stuff is to use.
Because apparently that was deemed too subtle, we then were treated to a barrage of celebrity contestants giving their personal endorsements as well. "Really, it blows your mind in so many ways, that TV," said Lisa Rinna. "It has everything under the sun. It can practically f—you." Wait, WHAT?!? The TV is having sexual intercourse with Lisa Rinna? How exactly does that work? I'm sorry to sound so ignorant but I think I may need a little birds and the bees conversation here because I'm not sure how that is physically possible. Is the remote control somehow involved? Are there some sort of unsavory things you are required to do with the cord to make this work? And does Harry Hamlin know about all of this?
But Lisa Rinna wasn't the only one orgasmic over the electronics. Lil Jon spent half of the episode asking for free swag. "LG, can you please hook a brother up with a TV?" he begged. "I want one of these phones. I want all this stuff." I have long said that the best way for reality contestants on shows like Survivor and Big Brother to ensure themselves of more camera time is to wax effusive about any of the product placement. Evidently, these celebrities have already mastered the art.
3. Gary Busey's School for Actors
One person who was not so impressed with the LG technology was Gary Busey, who actually walked away while the tech guy was explaining the refrigerator. Well, better that than pushing the dude like he was an intrusive cameraman. Or hissing at him like a cat coming out the closet on Halloween.
But Gary showed much more interest in the fellow actors that he hired to be in his ad. In his infinite wisdom, Mr. Busey happened to choose two women of roughly the same age to play his wife and daughter. It was, as Penn Jillette noted, "Some sort of weird Mormon sister wife thing, which was creepy." Not to a mechanical dog, it isn't!
Busey then gave the actors a pep talk about how the spirit chose them for the role. "I've been out of my body twice," he informed them. "And I stopped breathing for eight minutes." This was followed by an impersonation of a gravelly sounding medicine man who may or may not have had robot parts. And what sort of advice or direction did he give his fellow thespians? "If you have to fart, fart quick but keep your energy up." You won't learn that at Juilliard!
4. What happens in Vegas…Belongs in Donald Trump's Pockets!
It was pretty clear from the moment the Boardroom began that it was finally Gary Busey's time to be fired. What was unclear was why a billionaire like Donald Trump feels the need to go rip-off Las Vegas casinos for a little extra cash. Once again continuing his fascination with Marilu Henner's memory skills, Trump asked the Taxi actress if he could take her to Vegas so she could be a card counter for him. "And I'm serious about this!" he bellowed. "Have you ever thought about being a card counter?"
NEXT: Trump and Busey debate the word "even"
Unfortunately for Trump, Marilu revealed that her particular memory skills do not necessarily translate to numbers, so we was out of luck. Plus, Vegas mainstay Penn also announced that, "There's better ways to cheat." (Really? We're listening.) But this was a fascinating window into the mind of Donald Trump, where one can never truly have enough money. Owning all that real estate and all those golf courses simply will not do. Now he wants to make like Clooney and the Oceans 11 crew and start robbing casinos as well. And I have to say… I LOVE IT! I totally dig the idea of Donald Trump and Marilu Henner trying to knock off The Venetian. She can go incognito in her 3-D LG glasses (just make sure to get Lil Jon a pair too!), and Trump can do whatever it is Trump does in Vegas — which I can only assume involves hot tubs and naked women drying him off with $1,000 bills.
5. This Entire Exchange
The following conversation took place between Donald Trump and Gary Busey in the Boardroom after everyone watched both of the teams' LG ads. I find it to be a pretty good representation of this entire show.
Trump: "Which one do you think was better, Gary?"
Busey: "Wow. Even."
Trump: "Well, that's not very good."
Busey: "No, I feel like ours was just as good as it was, and theirs was just as good as it was."
Trump: "But when you say 'even', that means you think basically you're the Project Manager and you don't necessarily think you won."
Busey: "No, I do."
Trump: "So why do you think you won if it was even?"
Busey: "Because it was simple. It was with a family."
Trump: "But you just said 'even' so why do you think that?"
Busey: "No, I don't think it was even. I think we won because…"
Trump: "You just said you thought it was even."
Busey: "I'm taking that back. I'm rebuking that."
Well, that was productive. That exchange was amazing on many levels — logic, repetitiveness, the fact that it took all that time to go absolutely nowhere — not to mention the fact that it was the longest conversation of the entire episode to not feature the words "mechanical dog."
6. Goodnight, Gary
Gary didn't just get into it with Trump over the word "even." He also debated Lisa Rinna on whether she had yelled at him or not, and argued with Penn over how supportive he was during the task:
Busey: "Penn, you didn't give me the feelings."
Penn: "I didn't give you the feelings you wanted."
Busey: "No, you didn't give me the feelings I was asking for."
Penn: "Precisely."
But none of that could save him. Neither could the fact that Ivanka was sitting on the right side of daddy Trump instead of her usual left side. (Does guest adviser Joan Rivers — who usurped Ivanka's regular chair — insist on only being shot from one side?) Gary Busey's looney tunes act ensures that he will never be fired early but that he also will never make it to the very end because that would simply be too absurd, even for this show. So Gary was fired and sent off into Adrian's Trump Tower Elevator of Doom. I guess every dog truly does have its day.
And now it's your turn. What was your favorite moment of the episode? Were you happy to see Joan Rivers back as an advisor? And was Ivanka working that black leather skirt or what? Hit the message boards to let us know, and for more reality ramblings, follow me on Twitter @DaltonRoss. Until next week: Cluck, Cluck…Splash!
The New Celebrity Apprentice - Season 15
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'The Celebrity Apprentice' recap: 'A New Celebrity Apprentice Is Crowned'
'The Celebrity Apprentice' recap: 'Universal Wizards'
'The Celebrity Apprentice' recap: 'Who Stole My Phone?'
The Celebrity Apprentice recap: 'It's Like a Booze Cruise With Knowledge'
The Celebrity Apprentice recap: 'I Wish I Had a Project Manager'
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The Celebrity Apprentice recap: 'A Family Affair'
The Celebrity Apprentice recap: 'Nobody Out Thinks Donald Trump'
The Celebrity Apprentice season premiere recap: 'May the Gods of Good Pie Be With Us!'
Celebrity Apprentice RECAP
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Donald Trump, "you're fired" — you know the drill.


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After studies in musicology at Stanford University and private studies with Peter Watchorn in Boston, Mahan completed his training with Zuzana Ruzicková in Prague. Since making his debut in London in 2009 and a stint as the first harpsichordist to be BBC New Generation Artist (2008-2010), he has enjoyed a career as a recitalist and concerto soloist in such halls as Zurich's Tonhalle, Vienna's Konzerthaus, the Cologne Philharmonie, Tokyo's Sumida Symphony Hall, New York's Frick Collection, Vancouver's Chan Centre, the Library of Congress in Washington, London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Wigmore Hall, where he is a regular guest.
He played the first harpsichord recital in the history of the Proms, and returned to the Proms with his orchestration of Bach's "Art of Fugue" for the Academy of Ancient Music, which was selected as the "Top Ten of Classical Music" for 2012 in The Observer.
A frequent commentator on radio and television and a contributor to various magazines and publications, he works to take the harpsichord beyond the realm of early music into mainstream halls and series. A reflection of this, Mahan was shortlisted in the instrumentalist category at the 2014 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards and was nominated Gramophone "Artist of the Year".
Upcoming highlights include appearances in Munich's Bell'Arte Festival, Schloss Elmau, the Leipzig Bach-Festspiele, Bratislava Days of Early Music, and the Barbican in London. Regular collaborators include mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital and Michala Petri. December 2014 Mahan Esfahani was appointed harpsichord professor at Guildhall School.
A disc of C.P.E. Bach's Württemberg Sonatas for Hyperion won a Diapason d'Or, was BBC Music Magazine "Record of the Month", and won the 2014 Gramophone Award for Best Baroque Instrumental Album, while a two-disc set of the complete suites by Rameau received 5 Stars in Diapason. In 2014 Mahan Esfahani signed as an Exclusive Artist with Deutsche Grammophon; his first disc, combining modern and period works, was released in the Spring of 2015.


Sometimes, we meet extraordinary folks.
Afew days back, the tilers came to my place to fix some tiles that were taken off to repair a leak. After inspecting the works, I gave them a thumbs up and said it was so well done I can't even tell it's been taken off before. The levels are straight, the edges and grouting were perfectly spaced. The tiler then said he could tell it's been reworked and before he went on to tell me how to 'see' it, I told him to stop. Then both of us laughed and agreed that I shouldn't learn how to 'see' it because there is no way to 'un-see' if after that.
That incident reminded me of some of the images that I took that I felt left a deep impression in me. Some photos tell me more beyond what a viewer can see, because I experienced it the moment I pressed the button. At times, that experience makes the image alot more memorable in the photographer's heart. When I took this photo, the MC was preparing to invite the father of the bride on stage for his speech. At that very point in time, he said the groom has a striking resemblance to his father-in-law. At this very moment, the slideshow which was ongoing for awhile flashed an image of the groom and his father-in-law turned his head for a perfect silhouette. I can remember the moment it flashed, I went 'woah!' I know this little piece of memory will always come back whenever I see this image. Little things that make me really happy doing what I do.
I didn't put him there, I just happen to see it and it brought out the devil in me, so I took a pic.
With every major project, you get plenty of learning opportunities. Even before staying in it, the new place had provided me tons of learning opportunities, from housing rules, renovation considerations like color perception of paint, flooring usability, lighting temperature/intensity, down to the little bits like how to drill a hole on concrete, partition and metal. Small essential items like self tapping screw, nail plugs, wall plugs, butterfly plugs. Everytime I walk into the hardware shop, I feel like buying something to fix anything. I just have this urge to drill a hole, paint a wall or fix a piece of furniture. And I have not even talked about electronics. I think this is the new house phase.
Go out and erm… roll in the hay! I'll explain that in the next post. My clients are so funny it doesn't matter if it rain or shine.
The light came at the right time. I have to admit we nearly missed it. Sometimes, when you see me walking quickly and telling you… "it's ok, we are on time… the light is gorgeous, let's catch it", it actually means… "i hope the light doesn't run out. if you don't run with me now, we're screwed".
The office is finally up (at least the back end of it)! So I'm trying to do some work in this new environment, trying to figure out how the light plays out in the day and also the air flow since I'm not exactly a big fan of using my own aircon (because I'm ngeow like that). Bought myself a new long white work top. I love white! It looks pretty awesome against oak grained flooring and a grey blue wall. After renting for years, I finally have a say in the color of the walls.
I'm a sucker for 若影若线 images. As my friend used to say, "sometimes can see, sometimes cannot see".
This one is interesting. When I sent this image to Justin as a preview, he sent the pic back, circling the part of the bench right below his left hand with a comment "beer?" It's true, both of us can never see the image the same way again.


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Death Bed Confessions
As I was working to get information arranged for a web site that would feature many of the new scans of the Ramey Memo, I came across an article, "Part II: Death Bed Confessions – Roswell 1999: What's New?" My first thought was that legally, what they were talking about wasn't actually a death bed confession since we weren't dealing with a crime and some of the people seemed to be old but not necessarily on their death beds. But why split a legal hair when there was so much else wrong here.
I now understand why so many of the skeptics simply turn up their noses at new revelations about the Roswell case. Overlooking that many of the "new" witnesses didn't see anything themselves but merely heard others talking about the crash and those who might have seen something are simply not named.
Writing in the MUFON UFO Journal for June 1999, Tom Carey tells us, "As participants in the Roswell events of 1947expire at an increasing rate, it should be expected that we encounter more confessions of the 'deathbed' [at least he had the good sense to put quotes around the word] variety, and such is indeed the case."
Okay, I'm willing to give him a pass on this death bed nonsense. It does sound dramatic and a lot of us have used the term in the past when talking about some of this. But then he slides off the rails with:
A woman whose husband was an MP stationed in Roswell in 1947 relayed to us the information that her husband, on his deathbed four years ago [1995], "confessed" to guarding the perimeter – but not picking up the debris – at the Foster/Brazel ranch site, while another woman told us that her husband, during the last year of his life, in 1995, finally told her of his involvement in the events.
After seeing a show on TV that featured the Roswell Incident, she at last asked him, "Well, Dear, is it true?" He answered, "Well, I suppose that it's time I should tell you. I've been meaning to for a long time." He had been a cook with the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell in 1947 and confirmed to her that he was simply grabbed one day and told to report to Building #84 (a hanger) on the base. He was given a gun and told to stand guard at the hangar with other similarly confiscated base personnel.
While on guard duty, he stole a look inside the hangar long enough to see debris scattered about and "small bodies" being prepared for shipment elsewhere…
There is so much wrong here, that I feel compelled to break the narrative. First we begin with one woman, who is not identified, repeating a tale told by her husband, who is not identified, telling her he had guarded some random debris at the Foster ranch. No way for anyone to independently verify this account, check to see if the guy was actually an MP at Roswell at the right time, though I will assume (and yes I know what that means) that Carey had the name and confirmed the man had been in Roswell in 1947.
Second, before we can blink, we're off with another tale from a woman, who is not identified, and whose husband, who is not identified, is assigned to guard a hangar. He's handed a weapon, but we don't know if he is given any ammunition, which is a critical question, and who gets a look into the hangar. While this might seem plausible to someone who hadn't served in the Army, it has its flaws. In basic training, we are all taught how to act as a guard, so he would have known, generally, what to do. I have trouble with assigning guards to the hangar and then letting the security lapse to the point where the guy gets to look inside and even glimpses the bodies. This seems as realistic to me as Philip Corso's nonsense of opening a sealed crate at Fort Riley to see an alien corpse. I mean, if you're going to all the trouble to mount a guard, it would seem that you'd lock a door or two and hide the really good stuff under a tarp, in a room off the hangar floor, or in a space where even if someone looked in, they wouldn't see anything of value.
In the next paragraph we're treated to "another case, the granddaughter of someone involved in the Roswell events (at this point, we do not know in what capacity he was involved) contacted us to say that her grandfather had just passed away and left 'documents' pertaining to Roswell that would prove something extraordinary had happened there in 1947. At this is being written, we have been negotiating for several months to received copies of some of these alleged documents prior to making an expensive trip for a personal interview and to review the originals."
Once again, an unidentified source who heard the tale from her grandfather, who is unidentified, but with the promise of documents, which apparently never surfaced. Reminded me of the time I was working with a fellow who told me that his father had left him some documents that related to the Roswell case and would prove that it had happened. We finally worked out a way for me to see one of the pages so that I would know that he had the goods. Imagine my disappointment when he sent me a page from the MJ-12 Eisenhower Briefing Document. I don't know if his father had actually left these things to him or if the guy just came up with the story to make it sound legitimate, but it was, quite naturally, a dead end.
Which seems to be the case with all these reports. Here we are a decade and a half later, and as far as I can tell, nothing important ever came from these stories. Just more rumor that couldn't be verified because we have no names to go with them. I don't know if these stories showed up in Carey's and Don Schmitt's book about Roswell, but do know there are unidentified sources in it.
None of these tales even rises to the level of any standard of testimony. They are just a bunch of stories cobbled together that seem to corroborate some of the Roswell testimony of others but there is no way to tell. As most of you know, I come to the Roswell table believing that something did fall there that doesn't seem to have been manufactured on Earth, but these snippets of information just aren't good enough to help prove it and probably shouldn't have been reported until more information could be supplied. I hear the skeptics screaming for some way to verify, if nothing else, these guys were actually in Roswell at the right time.
And before you say, of course they were, I will mention that in the last decade and a half, I have listened to and seen stories of guys who weren't in the military but make all sorts of claims about their service in Vietnam… They had documents, uniforms, photographs and medals and when confronted with their lies, claimed their records were "lost," their missions "classified," but who don't even know some of the basics of military service. Sometimes, if you listen to their tales, you discover they are lifted from movies and often include the dialogue from those movies. Confront them and their friends and family will defend them, even in the face of evidence to the contrary.
Anyway, I felt compelled to mention these things before they become cemented into the Roswell lore… though some of that has already happened. If we are going to share these tales as the truth, then we had better be prepared to offer some way of learning if the "witness" was even in Roswell in 1947 otherwise we're just spinning our wheels.
I'm wholeheartedly with you on this Kevin. There is a lot that points to something strange, perhaps unearthly, crashing in 1947. But it doesn't mean investigators can become lax just to 'add to the testimonies', as Carey and Schmitt are chiefs at. Because what happens is they will realise hey.. we just got away with a couple of easy ones in our last book and people took the bait, and then it just snowballs from there... until something like the Roswell Slides incident occurs. They keep getting away with and getting away with it until they think they are invincible, but then end up ultimately and thankfully with egg on their faces.
This shouldn't be a field where one or two individuals has to bring the rest into line. But it seems that's its a field where investigators realise they can get away with quite a bit.. and then abuse the situation.
Don't even mention Maussaun... dooon't even mention him.
Terry the Censor said...
Some people investigate and produce findings...others just peddle "product."
cda said...
You, as an investigator, have insisted a genuine ET vehicle crashed to earth, and this fact has been covered up by the military for 7 decades. In which case a few top military guys and maybe a few CIA or NSA chiefs knew all about it but kept it top secret. These 'top guys' therefore took the secret to their graves (Vandenberg, Blanchard & Ramey are three such, as are maybe some of those scientists mentioned in the MJ-12 papers).
At a much lower level a few guys (like cooks and office cleaners) inadvertently and mistakenly found out back in '47 but, because of respect for their country, and perhaps out of fear of the consequences, also never revealed the truth - until literally at death's door.
So here is the position:
1. Certain guys at the top took the great secret to their graves. Their identities are known.
2. Certain guys at the bottom also kept the great secret, but finally made a confession when they realised they were near death. Their identities are unknown.
I presume you accept 1 (essential to your cause), but now appear to reject 2. I personally find 1 just as hard to believe as 2, although both appear infinitely improbable to me.
CDA =
The difference that you missed is that none of the lower ranking men are identified so there is no way to verify who they are or what they might have seen. And it seems, based on other testimony, I'm thinking of Robert Hastings and Art McQuiddy to name two, who were told something about this by Butch Blanchard... or Thomas DuBose who told several people about the situation in Fort Worth... So, your premise isn't exactly accurate.
Wind Swords said...
A bigger mystery to me than Roswell is why people would lie about it. I can see why they would about Viet Nam and other conflicts. The war was unpopular but the sentiment now is that it was not the fault of the troops and they should be respected and honored for their service. So it makes sense for someone who craves that kind of attention. But Roswell? For what, a mention in a book for a few sentences or a paragraph and maybe 2 minutes of face time on a documentary? And we are not talking a Dan Brown blockbuster book either.
It may have been Friedman but I don't recall.
Paul Young said...
I've spent the last couple of hours scouring the net using various search engines.
Can't find any reference to Kaufmann actually making any confessions that his story was a hoax.
There are plenty of references to people (Kevin Randle at the forefront) casting heavy doubts on his story and accusing him of perpetrating a hoax, or at the very least, being a fantasist... but seemingly no confession by Kaufmann himself. (Though he did backtrack on certain parts of his story)
It seems Kaufmann kept up the lie (let's call him what he really was; An out and out liar), to his grave and was only caught out conclusively after his death.
Brian -
Not good enough. If I tried something like this, you'd be all over me demanding evidence, quotes, sources... not something like it might have been Friedman... I don't believe that Friedman would have ever been close enough to hear anything like this and I don't believe he said it... Just more guesses, speculations and unfounded claims. You need to step up your game.
You say Robert Hastings spoke to Butch Blanchard. Have you confused Hastings with someone else, as I thought Blanchard had died long before the Roswell case ever became famous (in 1980 when the Berlitz-Moore book came out)?
I could write a lot about the totally nonsensical idea that anyone took the great 'Roswell secret' to their grave, but I won't, on the grounds that it is really off-topic.
CDA-
My fault. Bad syntax. Hastings spoke to Chester Lytle who had heard the tale from Blanchard. I was thinking that Hastings had reported his conversation with Lytle who told him what Blanchard had said. So, I guess since I'm relying on Hastings, you could say the information is third hand. However, McQuiddy told me what Blanchard had said to him, which sort of corroborates what Hastings wrote, but then the McQuiddy stuff is second hand. I was attempting to show that some of the higher-ranking officers had talked about this. Of course, DuBose told us what he had seen and done, so there we're back to first - hand testimony which you are now free to reject because the memories were decades old.
MR. Randle
What about Barry Goldwater? Didn´t his last testimony imply that his knowledge about crashed saucer and aliens came from Butch Blanchard?
Do you wish to retract your statement, telling us that you really didn't know anything about it but thought you'd just obscure the truth or do you just wish to now forget that you raised an allegation that had no basis in fact?
Zak -
I do not believe that Barry Goldwater's knowledge had anything to do with Colonel Blanchard.
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Pakistan to mark 'Youm-e-Tauba' on Friday to seek Allah's blessings during difficult time
A delegation of senior clerics on Monday assured Prime Minister Imran Khan of their full support in implementing the precautionary measures advised by the government to curb the spread of novel coronavirus in Pakistan.
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Religious Affairs Minister Noorul Haq Qadri, also present at the media briefing, said the government had decided to observe the coming Friday (April 24) as 'Youm-e-Tauba' to seek mercy from Allah in this difficult time. He said the P.M. had appealed to the ulema to obey the 20-point agreement devised last week to ensure COVID-19 does not spread through congregations in mosques.
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Le  il arrive à Carthagène des Indes rejoint par le navire Real Familia, après quoi il met le cap sur Cadix.

Combat contre des pirates algériens
En novembre de 1751 il navigue depuis Cadix à destination de Ferrol avec le navire  comme navire amiral sous les ordres du capitaine de navire . À l'aube du , près du cap Saint-Vincent, ils aperçoivent les navires algériens, Danzik, de 60 canons, et Castillo Nuevo, de 54. La deuxième d'entre eux réussit à s'échapper, tandis qu'ils donnent la chasse au premier. Dans la bataille de 30 heures sur quatre jours qui s'ensuit, il y a dans les navires espagnols 29 morts et blessés, et sur le bateau corsaire, 194 morts et 320 prisonniers. Sont libérés 50 prisonniers.

Le navire algérien est incendié, faute de pouvoir le sauver, vu les sérieux dégâts occasionnés par le combat. Le Capitaine Stuart est promu chef d'escadre pour son mérite au combat par Ordre royal du .

En février de 1752, les deux navires, Dragon et América font voile de Cadix à Ferrol, avec les 150 membres de l'équipage capturés du Danzik, où ils devront travailler dans les chantiers de la base navale.

De nouveau dans la flotte des Indes
Cette même année, il part de Cadix à destination de Veracruz, sous le commandement du capitaine de navire Juan Manuel Pérez de Alderete, comme bateau insigne de la division qui faisait escorte à un convoi marchand.

Le , il appareille de Cadix en tant que navire amiral (deuxième insigne) de la Flotte de Nouvelle-Espagne, sous le commandement de Luis de Córdova y Córdova, composée de trois bateaux de guerre, et treize marchands. Il revient de Veracruz, le , et après escale à La Havane, il rentre à Cadix le , avec plus de sept millions de pesos dans ses cales.

Il prend part, de nouveau comme bateau insigne, dans la dernière Flotte des Indes, sous le commandement du chef d'escadre Antonio de Ulloa Au commandement du Dragon se trouve le brigadier Juan Antonio Cordero Il appareille de Cadix le , avec l'España comme navire amiral (premier insigne) et quinze navires marchands, qui arrivent à Veracruz le 25 juillet. Ils partent de nouveau depuis La Havane et arrivent à Cadix le , pour se diriger postérieurement à Ferrol à la fin de juillet de 1778.

Guerre d'Indépendance des États-Unis
Au commencement de la guerre d'indépendance des États-Unis en juin de 1779, le Dragon appareille de Ferrol avec quatre frégates pour patrouiller sur les côtes de la mer Cantabrique, après quoi, il rentre à Ferrol, début du mois d'octobre. Mi-octobre, il appareille de Ferrol, à destination de Cadix, pour une croisière de surveillance sur les Açores. En janvier 1780, il est incorporé dans l'escadre du lieutenant-général Luis de Córdoba.

Le , sous le commandement du capitaine de navire Pedro Autrán, il appareille de Cadix à destination de La Havane avec l'escadre commandée par José Solano y Bote, qui arrive à La Havane le 4 août.

Avec l'escadre commandée par José Solano y Bote il participe à l'occupation de Pensacola en 1781, rejoint par la frégate Sant Clara la Americana, la frégate britannique capturée London et le brigantin Márgara. À la fin de janvier de 1782 il appareille de La Havane pour faire barrage à la Catalina, capturée par les Britanniques. En avril 1782, il se trouve en réparations dans l'arsenal de La Havane.

Naufrage
Sous le commandement du brigadier Miguel Alfonso de Sousa, il appareille de La Havane le , rejoint par le San Lorenzo, à destination de Veracruz. Le 29 mai, il échoue dans le Bajo Nuevo de Campeche. Il est renfloué avec l'aide du San Lorenzo, mais finit par sombrer avec 60 hommes à bord.

Notes et références

Navire amiral
Navire de ligne de la Marine espagnole
Bateau lancé en 1745
Nom de bateau
Flotte des Indes
Navire coulé en 1782
Navire échoué en 1782


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Episode #13: Michael Mary Murphy on the Irish Music Industry
Field Day September 26, 2018 Field Day Podcast
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The first million-seller in the global music industry was the sheet music of Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies.
Using this as his starting point, music historian and industry insider Michael Mary Murphy shows that there are long chains of cause and effect that run through the history of Irish popular music from 19th-century ballads to 21st-century file-sharing.
Million-selling Irish music. Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, Bono from U2 (photo: Daniel Hazard), Dolores O'Riordan from The Cranberries (photo: Alterna2)
Amid fascinating accounts of some of the biggest names – U2, The Cranberries, The Pogues, John McCormack, Val Doonican – Michael argues that it is crucial to understand the informal 'scene' that makes all musical performers who they are, long before they score their first hit.
Where do successful bands come from? Who lends them money when they are starting out? How do they get gigs? And how do all of these factors mould their later success?
Why did nobody see The Cranberries coming, and why were they so despised in the industry press? How did The Pogues sustain their shambolic pace for decades? And why did mid-20th century Irish priests sing cowboy songs?
Exploring these and other questions, Michael argues that music has been a special case in Irish culture over the last century, escaping the censorship of the Catholic Church and playing a key role in the state-building project from the 1920s on.
Michael Mary Murphy
Michael Mary Murphy has worked in the music industry for over 20 years, and he is a leading authority on Irish music history. He writes for Village Magazine and lectures in music at the Institute for Art, Design and Technology in Dublin. He is writing a book-length history of Irish popular music.
Catholic church, censorship, Irish Music, music, music industry, punk, The Cranberries, The Pogues, Thomas Moore, U2
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Episode #14: Anthropologist Steve Coleman on Irish-Language Songs and Literature


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Baptists have "plagued" Chile for many decades—in the same sense that the Apostle Paul was said to have done so in Acts 24:5. Unfortunately, few Chilean Baptists know much about this history of what I would call both a calvinistic and largely libertarian heritage. I have previously written something about the Baptists that arrived in Chile from Germany, Scotland and the United States from 1884 to 1917. They were the first real movement of Baptists to Chile, although President (General Director) Bernardo O'Higgins had invited Scottish Baptist Pastor James Thompson in 1821 to work to improve Chilean primary education using the Lancaster method. He stayed a year but managed to bring the first "Bible that came legally" into the country and began to spread the simple Gospel as well as he could.
There were also a few Baptists included in the more general immigrations of Germans during the 1850s and 1860s to Valdivia, La Unión and Osorno, along with the later settlements around Lago Llanquihue. (Note: a few Mennonites—pacifist, Arminian Baptists—also arrived, but they are not the focus of this article.) Some of the earliest German Baptists settled from Contulmo to Los Ángeles, down to Victoria, and also El Salto, Quillén Viejo and Temuco, including the Lichtenberg, Reinicke, Rolof, Meir, and Berg families, evangelizing German-speaking Roman Catholics.
In 1908, twenty years after his initial arrival in the country and extensive labors, missionary William MacDonald (photo above) and three hundred Baptist brethren founded the first evangelical Baptist convention in Chile. There were a number of Chilean pastors by then, too, and many of them ran along family lines with these surnames:
Sáez (José)
Valdivia (Wenceslao Valdivia and his son Isaías Valdivia, being the most renown)
Chávez (Abraham)
Mella (Gualberto)
Gatica (Juan Antonio)
Álvarez (Juan Domingo)
along with other key men in leadership, according to Victor Aguilar, History of Baptists in Chile (pages 5, 7):
Zapata (Nieves)
Bar (Pedro)
Rodriguez (Erasmo)
Espinosa (José Tenorio)
Mancilla (David)
Mora (Joaquín)
Ramirez (José)
Modern Chilean Baptists would do well to find out more about these men. The initial Spanish-speaking churches were established—apparently illegally (before 1925)—in towns spread across a wide radius around Temuco: Gorbea, Lastarria, Mune, Molco (on Villarrica lake), Cajon and Huilío. American southern Baptist missionary Dr. WIlliam Buck Bagby, who was originally sent to Brazil, came to Chile around the same time at the request of MacDonald. Along with the American Baptists, Brazilian, Argentine, Mexican and Cuban Baptist organizations sent financial support for the early Chilean churches. By 1923, the number of Baptist churches had grown from five to twenty-nine and the number of members to 1,154. Pereira, page 7
It is interesting to note that Chilean Baptists were renown for being penniless at that time and were thus poor givers; a characteristic that has transcended generations and over 110 years of history, down to the present day. It is a shame that Chileans are famous for not being generous givers. They neither support their own pastors adequately nor fully undertake the cost of building their own church structures, instead relying on foreigners (especially Americans) for such blessings. As Oscar Garcia Pereira noted in 2012:
But the pain of missiological poverty was cured by the largesse of missionary wealth of the Southern Baptists of the US. From this body missionaries began to arrive [1917-1926], very well trained in theology, and well equipped in family resources and dollars. They came to plant, harvest, and store, the rich fruits of evangelization. Pereira, pages 4, 6, 8; note that Virginian Baptists were still paying 79.7% of Chilean pastoral support fifty years later in 1972!
Who exactly were these ardent missionaries?
—1917 William Earl and Mary Davidson to Santiago (see page 27 of the missionary list).
—1919 Frank and Effie Marrs, missionaries to Mexico who went to help Earl Davidson in Santiago (see page 66 of the missionary list).
—1919 Robert Cecil and Mary Moore, first to help in Santiago for a year and then on to Concepción (see page 73 of the missionary list).
—1920 Agnes Nora Graham (see page 41 of the missionary list), head of the Baptist school in Temuco starting in 1922, construction and operations financed by the Southern Baptist Convention to combat the illiteracy rate of 50% and provide basic instruction.
—1921 Joe Lancaster (and wife Tennessee) Hart to Temuco to start a Bible institute, then to Concepción briefly and finally to Antofagasta (see page 46 of the missionary list).
—1922 James W. and Catherine McGavock to Talca (see page 70 of the missionary list).
—1926 Wynne Quilon and Berta Lou (Tooms) Maer to Temuco for youth ministry commencing in 1929 (see page 66 of the missionary list).
They settled in Temuco, Concepción, Talca, Santiago and Antofagasta. MacDonald also became a recognized Southern Baptist missionary, and proceeded to establish churches in Freire, and the southeastern Ninth Region: Laureles, Villarrica, Pucón, Liucura, and Picahres (near Caburgua lake in the Andes foothills). Thus, the first organized Chilean Baptist churches, apart from the previous union with the Christian and Missionary Alliance, under the efforts of MacDonald and the Southern Baptist missionaries (later becoming the Baptist union or association UBACH) were, according to Aguilar (page 8): Temuco (1914), Valdivia (1917), Santiago 1st (1919, reorganized 1920), Concepción (1919), Santiago 2nd (1921, with the Davidsons), Talca (1926), Valparaíso (1936), and Antofagasta (1937).
They were all active in evangelization and political activism, as Pereira noted (page 4): "The Chilean evangelicals and Baptists settled in a country with martial war. They had to fight against closed social institutions to obtain room for social tolerance and religious freedom…[and] had to face a constitutional giant—the union of Church and State." Like Pastor John Leland before them, they boldly fought for religious liberty, and their progeny following suit through participation in the Radical Party starting in the 1930s (see Pereira, pages 11-12).
While one cannot say with certainty if or how the Chilean pastors and foreign missionaries of the 1908-1937 era fell in with Leland, it is manifestly clear that Twenty-First Century ones are reluctant, theologically ignorant and perhaps even lazy cowards by comparison—lacking both his calvinistic/transformational doctrine and his diligent Christian principles put into practice. As the historical record shows, the original Chilean Baptist church (UBACH) and its Santiago seminary's degeneration to unbiblical modernism or light "Christianity" seems to have begun during the 1950s and metastasized ever since. Consequently, unless there is a revival among it, historically Baptist convictions must be sought in other independent, particular and Reformed Baptist churches that have risen up during the last four decades.
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PHOENIX (AP) — The state Department of Transportation says the seasonal closings of several Arizona highways for winter will soon end.
Three highways in eastern Arizona's White Mountains that will reopen Monday are State Route 261 between Eager and Big Lake, State Route 273 between Sunrise Park and Big Lake, and State Route 473 between State Route 260 and Hawley Lake.
State Route 366 on Mount Graham in southeastern Arizona also is scheduled to open on Monday, while State Route 67 to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona is expected to reopen in mid-May.


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PM's 'Writ Runs' in 'Humanitarian' Support to Lalit Modi: Kharge
Kharge, alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's writ runs in the 'humanitarian' support that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
BENGALURU: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's writ runs in the 'humanitarian' support that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj offered to former IPL chairman Lalit Modi with his travel documents.
"Even if he wanted some favour from the Indian Government as a citizen, he could have approached our Prime Minister. We don't know whether (Prime Minister) Modi himself gave consent to issue a visa. If it is so, then, he is equally responsible. He should come out and tell the people of this country, who want to know whether this happened with the consent of the Prime Minister, Home Minister, Finance Minister and (Sushma Swaraj) herself. I think it is purely (Prime Minister) Modi's writ runs. It is only namesake collective responsibility, but the entire show is run by (Prime Minister) Modi," Kharge told ANI here.
"Where is the need to take a special interest in someone who has charges of involvement in IPL scam and tax evasion? Even the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is after him. And why should Sushma Swaraj's daughter get acknowledgement of thanks and also Swaraj Kaushal, her husband, who is a lawyer – all this shows that it is a favour given to a particular man who is closely known to them," he added.
The Congress, which has sharpened its attack against the External Affairs, has sought a clarification from Prime Minister Modi on the entire episode.
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi had yesterday demanded that Swaraj be sacked from the Union Cabinet in the wake of revelations related to Lalit Modi. Swaraj had on Sunday said she had taken a humanitarian view of Lalit Modi's case since his wife was suffering from cancer.
She further said that British MP Keith Vaz had spoken to her on the same, adding she believes that giving an Indian citizen emergency travel documents' cannot spoil relations between India and the UK. Vaz, who is facing an inquiry in the UK over the role he played in Modi receiving his travel papers, said that he had checked with the Indian Government before taking any action and added that he had received a 'no objection' from New Delhi.